A woman was sexually assaulted by a taxi driver who picked her up outside Hull's Piper Club, a court heard.

The complainant, who gave evidence from behind a screen on Wednesday, told Hull Crown Court she was groped by Binu Boniface while he was taking her to buy chips from Khan Pizza in Princes Avenue, west Hull, in the early hours of August 13, 2017.

Mr Boniface, 47, of Buttermere Close, west Hull, is on trial and denies sexual assault.

The woman said she had gone out the previous evening with a friend and decided to get a taxi home on her own at about 2am.

She said she went outside, gave her name to a waiting taxi and asked if it was for her, and got in the front passenger seat after being told it was.

The alleged victim asked the driver to stop at the home she shared with her partner off Princes Avenue so she could get some money, and then got back in and asked the driver to take her to Khan's.

The Piper in Newland Avenue (Image: Hull Daily Mail)

She told the court they were driving back onto Princes Avenue when the driver "just started reaching across and grabbing my b****" with his right hand while steering with his left.

"Did he just lay his hand on your chest?" asked Richard Thompson, prosecuting.

'A lot of groping'

"There was a lot of groping," the woman said. She said she asked the driver what he was doing while knocking his hand away.

"You've left it too late to go home and you're making this up," said Paul Genney, defending. "No," she said.

The takeaway worker she spoke to also gave evidence and said when the woman arrived "she said 'Can you come out one minute'? I said 'Can you give me a minute'?"

He said he served food to a customer before the woman asked to speak to him again and he went out. He said "The driver came out and handed over something to her and I thought it was a pipe of something. She said to me 'Can you see him'? I said 'Yes'.

"Then I said 'What happened'? She no answering anything. She just, she showed me, like, with her hands. Someone touched her."

The trial continues.

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